Ummm yu can s**t an auto just like a stick and control ur rpms just like a stick. It is harder on the auto transmition, and it is geared different then a stick shift.
I've been playing aroun w/ my car for years as auto and my tranny is still running fine, and as for shiftin into park or reverse..yud have to be a moron. It's locked out so yu would have to push the bitten in an shift to the highest position. If it in first going to 2nd 3r or even drive, all yu have to do is push it, don't touch the butten lol. If worst come to worst and yu push it to far yu end up I neutral. Big deal, justdrop it down 1 and ur in drive.